REGISTERED NURSE (RN) 7p-7a 7163
Meridian Health Services
Riverbend Hospital
West Lafayette, Indiana
- Eligibility
- Nurse Managers & SupervisorsSign-on bonus
Posted Jun 16 · New grads welcomed
- Shift and hours
- 12-hour nights
- Unit and setting
- Psych · Hospital
- License
- RN licenseIndiana Licensed Registered Nurse
- Term
- Per Diem
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed NCLEX Exam Reimbursement (New Grads)
- License
- Indiana Licensed Registered Nurse Check your license
Your six-month RN application plan
Start about six months before graduation. Some programs open earlier; use each employer’s application dates.
6 months before
Shortlist units
Check application windows. Gather clinical experience, references and your expected graduation date.
Find residencies →4–6 months before
Apply as windows open
Apply before graduation when the program allows it. Keep the cohort date and license deadline with each application.
Explore new grad jobs →2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questions →Around graduation
Confirm your start
Coordinate NCLEX, the required license and your start date. Get relocation and repayment terms in writing.
Plan your license →
Why start this early?
Advocate describes a 6–9 month application runway for several regional RN programs. These milestones are a planning guide, not deadlines for every employer. See program calendars.
What it pays
- Sign-on bonus
- $2,000
- Tuition assistance
- Offered
- Loan repayment
- Offered
Benefits
- Merit Based Compensation Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Loan Payment
- NCLEX Exam Reimbursement (New Grads)
The role and schedule
- Hours stated
- 7p-7a
- On call
- On-call rotation
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range, differentials, and sign-on bonus repayment terms?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
Your fit
On your path
Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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Text 7163 to 765-523-4622 to Quick Apply for this REGISTERED NURSE (RN) opportunity!
Welcome Bonus $2,000!
Focusing on “Whole-Person” Healthcare Meridian Health Services is a progressive healthcare organization that believes in treating the “whole person” integrating physical, mental and social well-being to help people achieve their optimum health. This approach connects treatments and doctors working together to heal both the body and mind for total well-being.
Meridian Health Services is currently seeking a PRN 7p-7a Registered Nurse to provide services at our Riverbend Hospital located in West Lafayette, Indiana..
REGISTERED NURSE (RN) Key
Responsibilities
Demonstrates medication administration
skills
(minimal errors, timely med pass)
Demonstrates pharmacodynamics knowledge: (adverse effects, drug interactions, therapeutic response, etc.). Demonstrates knowledge of pathophysiology with particular emphasis on population served. Demonstrates skill with physical assessment.
Demonstrates timely follow through with client appointments, labs, and medical concerns. Acts as patient advocate to monitor individualization of treatment, coordinate treatment plans, and work with treatment in effective and proactive manner. Demonstrates effective and respectful verbal communication skills with clients, co-workers, and visitors.
Informs physicians of changes in client’s condition (behavioral/physical, abnormal labs/vital signs, significant contact with others). Demonstrates ability to complete required clinical documentation. Accurately documents and transcribes physician’s orders Obtains staff input regarding safety/security risks in making unit management decisions.
Implements necessary restrictions ordered or as nursing measures when warranted by physical and/or psychiatric conditions. Demonstrates safety/security on unit (verbal/physical interventions (CPI), emergency codes, universal precautions, CPR, event reports, assessment of client risk factors). Demonstrates skill with documentation (PRN’s, timely notation of orders, charting, etc.).
Demonstrates skill with admission/discharge process: (completes paperwork in a timely manner including assessment for pain, falls, and suicide risk). Demonstrates effective and timely written communication skills. Demonstrates effective planning and organization skills.
Uses the nursing process to manage and allocate personnel and unit resources, to assure completion of unit tasks, and to meet the needs of clients and milieu. Motivates nursing staff to grow professionally by acting as a role model in direct appropriate communication, professional accountability, and continuing education. Uses the nursing process to formulate individual treatment plans in consultation with unit staff, physicians, treatment team, and other disciplines; treatment plans are formulated toward psychosocial, medical, cultural, age-specific, and pain management needs.
Good time management skills, including the ability to structure time, prioritize activities, and be self-motivated. Teaches, trains, and supervises clients and staff (empowering and teaching new responsibilities within acceptable limits). Demonstrates good judgment and decision-making skills.
Meets with supervisor for clinical and administrative supervision. Works well with other departments and outside agencies. Attends or completes all mandatory nursing requirements required by hospital.
Maintains professional boundaries. Demonstrates dependability with attendance, punctuality, availability, completion of duties in a timely manner. Demonstrates competence in use of electronic health record.
Maintains current CPR and TB certification. Assumes Nursing on call shifts as needed.
We are seeking REGISTERED NURSE (RN) candidates with the following qualities:
Associates or Bachelors degree in Nursing required Non-probationary Indiana Licensed Registered Nurse required
Meridian Health Services provides the following
benefits
Merit Based Compensation Plan Life balance oriented organization
River Bend Hospital | North Central Health Services provides these additional
benefits
Tuition Reimbursement | Loan Payment NCLEX Exam Reimbursement (New Grads)
Drug screen, TB test, extensive background check, and fingerprinting are required of all Meridian employees. Meridian Health Services recommends that all individuals who join Meridian have a flu shot and Covid vaccination to further protect our staff and the patients we serve. We also adhere to Covid-related protocol including wearing masks, social distancing, and sanitizing.
Meridian Health Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/D/V) and also participates in E-Verify.
What's around it?
West Lafayette, INFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 7% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,225/mo
- Household income
- $34,891/yr, all local households, not nurse pay